first timer, be nice

[elisha2kings.livejournal.com]

So this is my first response to well any online post.  Please be nice? 

edit: Sorry it's lj cut now.  

Title: Curiosity Killed Conviction

Prompt: Take a Stand
Characters: curious!Dragon, angsty!Garp
Words: 304
Rating: E+
Summary: What breaks a family and sparks a revolution?  Sometimes it's just asking the wrong questions.

 

Curiosity Killed Conviction

He'd always been curious about the world around him.No matter the subject matter, he always pressed for answers only to find more questions at the end of each discovery.

 

That was the way the world worked, he was told after he'd angrily burst out and questioned why fishmen were treated like animals.

 

But why?  Even as a child, he knew it wasn't right.

 

Because.

 

"Because" became one of his most-hated words.

 

Because I said so, brat! was inevitably the answer he'd get from his father, often accompanied by a vicious blow to the head.

 

He knew he'd never be a Marine.  He asked too many questions.

 

Why does the World Government rule?

 

What came before the World Government?

 

What is Justice?

 

And those questions were always avoided, to his frustration.  Even as he grew older, the answers grew vaguer and the voices grew colder and sharper until they stopped answering altogether.

That doesn’t matter right now!

 

Stop asking useless questions!

 

Shut up!

 

He learned to keep his mouth shut and ears open.  Learned to read between what was said and what was meant. He dug deeper and deeper.  And when he finally found what he’d been looking for, the world he’d come to know shattered in an instant.

 

Even as his father ranted and shouted at him, he stood as implacable as a rock.  He answered back with cutting words he’d later regret.

 

Government dog.  Fool.  Liar.

 

His father raised his fist and he’d prepared himself for the blow, only to see the clenched fist slowly fall and his father’s head droop.  His world once again tilted as he saw not a scary monster, but a man.

 

Get out.  His father whispered brokenly.

 
The door swung shut behind him.  He left without any regrets. The world was waiting for his answer.

Comments

[akumugan.livejournal.com]

I really liked this! =D And I felt like I could connect and relate with Dragon. *cheers for Dragon* Whoo! (_{And I think the rules said that it had to be under a LJ-Cut. ^^;;;})

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

XD

New ficcer! *glomps enthusiastically*

It's lovely, and fits the prompt well! (yesss, Dragon!)

The only suggestion I have is to do an lj-cut for the fic

(lj-cut text="text in the quotations marks") - fic - (/lj-cut) except you replace the () with <> ^^

lj-cut

[eiliem.livejournal.com]

ah! nearly - you need to delete the space between text= "At

took me. SO LONG to figure these out =_=;

[shayera.livejournal.com]

Awww! This is good! It rings true for Dragon, that he'd be the kid that asked the difficult questions, and kept looking for the answers until he found them...

His world once again tilted as he saw not a scary monster, but a man.

Poor Garp...

[arcielfreeder.livejournal.com]

Wow~~ this is nice. :)

I like how it's deeply related to the prompt. <3

And poor Garp. :( why do i always end up saying that line?

Now I wanna write something like this too but I have no talent for it. It sucks. T.T

[naye]

Very neat!

It really does ring very true - we've seen so little of Dragon, but this is him. The world, waiting for his answer. And Garp, too, who is... not the most communicative man, or the most patient. Ahh.

Well done!